The heavy rains that have hit various regions of the country in recent weeks caused a new alert in the La Mojana subregion due to new floods in the sector known as ‘cat’s face’.
In this area, located in San Jacinto del Cauca, Bolívar, reconstruction work is being carried out on a hole to prevent flooding in the 11 municipalities included in the departments of Sucre, Bolívar, Córdoba and Antioquia.
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However, the rains caused the Cauca river to have a sudden rise of 1.90 meterswhich caused alert and concern in this area of the country, since the works were affected.
The first complaints from the residents indicated that the works, which have been going on for more than five months, had collapsed.
This situation occurred at the same time that the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD), in charge of the work, announced that the union of the southern end and the northern end of a 1,234 m jarillón had been carried out. in length, a key step for this emergency mitigation work.
“The megabags were moved from the place of closure and a space of approximately 40 to 50 meters was opened again, in addition, the power lines located in the sector were demolished, leaving Guaranda without electricity,” said Arcesio Paredes, a resident of San Jacinto del Cauca.
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However, from the UNGRD they clarify that this situation does not mean that the works have collapsed. Although they acknowledge that a rise of 1.90 meters was not expected, which caused the water to exceed the level at the time of the work, this was not the final level.
In other words, after closing the points, which was what was achieved this week, The next step is to increase the level to avoid damages after a flood like the one that occurred this week.
“We are on the ground and we have never stopped working on the construction site. We will continue working on this stream until the level is above the levels of the Cauca River so that the water does not exceed the structure, thus mitigating the impact of the floods in the entire La Mojana region. The Unit team met yesterday with the communities and authorities in the area to jointly continue these works, which by their very nature are complex. Our commitment to the communities continues”, assured the director of the UNGRD, Eduardo José González.
For the communities surrounding the ‘cat face’ sector, it is necessary to wait for the levels of the Cauca River to drop before resuming the closure works and once again solving the situation that has arisen.
“If it continues to rain and the river grows, we will be headed for a new emergency due to flooding. We trust that this is not the case and that the closure in this place is a reality,” Paredes said.
In addition, for leaders of the La Mojana region, the closure with the megabags is not enough to conclude the work in this critical point of the region.
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They say that a dredging job must be done in the place and on an island that was formed in front of ‘cat’s face’, in addition to building a garden in the back of where the Risk Unit carried out the work.
In fact, yesterday the dredging work began in this sector, reported the UNGRD
“This is just the beginning. The definitive closure in the place is with the completion of the complementary works”, the leaders of the region have stated.
To continue with the work, there are seven crawler backhoes, eight dump trucks, a dredger and two boats with the required machinery in the area.
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